The Halloween episode of DuckTales “The Trickening” was awesome! Scrooge, Donald, and Della had the best costumes (but no one understood Webby’s Balor costume because apparently no one in this universe plays D&D). I am, however, a little disappointed that Sam didn’t voice anyone in the monster house given his performance in the haunted house they put Travis through (for charity). Then there’s the part where Launchpad runs into the streets wielding a circular saw, and Della says they have to stop him before he hurts someone. Granted they’d already used the word “death” earlier in the episode, but I think people would be more than hurt by that.
I’ve been wondering lately if Nomura likes Twin Peaks and incorporated some of it into Kingdom Hearts (like he supposedly did with Stein’s Gate towards the end there). What if Sora disappearing was like Cooper getting stuck in the Lodge? What if Xehanort was like Leland and got possessed by a Bob-like entity (Darkness)? What if Yozora is like Phillip Jeffries since he didn’t think Sora was really Sora? Since Luxord gave Sora the get-out-of-jail-free card, what if he’s like some kind of Mike character, the card being some kind of ring-like mcguffin? As for the new update, the reason behind Darkness killing Strelitzia seems to be to piss off Lauriam and turn him against the others. Garmonbozia, if you will (though I doubt anybody will be chowing down on creamed corn, ew). Doug Jones is the name of the actor who played Billy Butcherson in Hocus Pocus, and he voiced two of the monsters in that DuckTales episode, but I digress.
I watched Last Evolution Kizuna, and it was just as bad as the rest of Tri. I did like the throwback to the Digidestined from the world tour arc, but it was very much the same as the rest of Tri except the battles weren’t as good. A now-adult woman loses her Digimon and decides if she can’t have her Digimon, no one else does (or everyone but they’re unconscious and living in a dream world). When the Digidestined went comatose and their partners disappeared, it felt like they were references to the Cybersleuth games and the Digimelody from Xros Wars. Sora was sidelined as per usual and lost her connection to Biyomon offscreen without being put into a coma or interacting with any other characters. The 02 kids were in New York because they can thanks to their abuse of Digital Gates (Yolei was legit at study abroad, but Davis had dragged the rest along on noodle research). Sure, they got to do stuff, but they were never faced with the possibility of losing their Digimon once they hit the age of the six older Digidestined. I’m sure Ken would’ve freaked the fuck out considering what he’s already been through with Wormmon. I’m also offended that the point of this movie was to get the fans to move on when there’s already a reboot airing in Japan. What sort of sense does that make?
